This is a list of novelists from France. Novelists in this list should be notable in some way, and ideally have Wikipedia articles on them. See also French novelists Category Index. * Honoré d'Urfé (1568–1625) * Charles Sorel (c. 1602–1674) * Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) * Madame de Lafayette (1634–1693), author of La Princesse de Clèves * Alain-René Le Sage (1668–1747) * Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763) * Voltaire (1694–1778), philosophe, satirist, playwright, author of Candide * Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne * Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), author of Manon Lescaut * Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777) * Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), philosophe, author of Julie, or the New Heloise * Denis Diderot (1713–1784), philosophe, au